Tag: business
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Should Cloud Be Classed as Critical Infrastructure?
Tags: access, authentication, banking, breach, business, cloud, compliance, computing, container, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, dora, encryption, fido, finance, framework, governance, Hardware, healthcare, identity, incident, infrastructure, mfa, network, nis-2, radius, regulation, resilience, risk, saas, service, strategy, supply-chain, technologyShould Cloud Be Classed as Critical Infrastructure? madhav Thu, 03/05/2026 – 09:53 Over the past few years, large-scale cloud outages have demonstrated just how deeply digital services are woven into the fabric of modern society. When widely used cloud platforms experience disruption, the impact extends far beyond individual applications; banking services stall, transport systems falter,…
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Is investing in advanced AI cybersecurity justified
Are You Safeguarding Your Business With Non-Human Identities? Have you ever wondered how secure your organization’s systems are against non-human threats? Where the interaction between machines and systems is increasing, Non-Human Identities (NHIs) have become a critical focus for cybersecurity. These machine identities are pivotal in managing cybersecurity risks, especially where companies increasingly operate in……
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Hiscout und Bearingpoint stärken gemeinsam die Resilienz der öffentlichen Verwaltung
Hiscout, ein führender Anbieter integrierter GRC-Softwarelösungen, baut sein Partnernetzwerk weiter aus und arbeitet ab sofort strategisch mit der Management- und Technologieberatung Bearingpoint zusammen. Ziel der Partnerschaft ist es, Organisationen der öffentlichen Hand bei Informationssicherheit, Business-Continuity-Management (BCM), Datenschutz und Compliance noch umfassender und praxisnaher zu unterstützen. Im Fokus der Zusammenarbeit steht die Weiterentwicklung und Stärkung der…
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How to know you’re a real-deal CSO, and whether that job opening truly seeks one
Tags: access, ai, breach, business, communications, compliance, control, cyber, data, data-breach, finance, framework, governance, incident response, infosec, insurance, jobs, metric, privacy, radius, risk, skills, strategy, threat, training, vulnerabilityStriking the right balance of experience and responsibility: Mark G. McCreary, partner and chief AI and IT security officer at Boston-based legal firm Fox Rothschild LLP, has seen both extremes: security being completely sidelined and security professionals given excessive, unjustified authority.In some firms, a newly appointed CSO might be positioned as a gatekeeper without the…
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N8N: Shared Credentials and Account Takeover
Executive Summary We identified a security weakness in n8n’s credential management layer that could have completely compromised the application’s security. This finding highlights the core risks of centralized authentication in workflow automation platforms. As n8n serves as the central hub connecting critical systems and orchestrating business processes across teams, any gap in credential handling can……
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NCSC Warns UK Organisations to Prepare for Potential Iran-Linked Cyber Activity
Tags: advisory, attack, awareness, breach, business, china, cyber, cybercrime, data, data-breach, espionage, exploit, finance, government, group, incident response, infrastructure, international, Internet, iran, leak, malware, middle-east, military, monitoring, phishing, resilience, risk, russia, service, supply-chain, tactics, threat, tool, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementGeopolitical conflict rarely stays confined to physical battlefields. Increasingly, it spills into the digital domain. The latest escalation of tensions in the Middle East has prompted the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to issue a warning to organisations to review their cyber security posture and prepare for possible cyber activity linked to Iran. While…
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NCSC Warns UK Organisations to Prepare for Potential Iran-Linked Cyber Activity
Tags: advisory, attack, awareness, breach, business, china, cyber, cybercrime, data, data-breach, espionage, exploit, finance, government, group, incident response, infrastructure, international, Internet, iran, leak, malware, middle-east, military, monitoring, phishing, resilience, risk, russia, service, supply-chain, tactics, threat, tool, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementGeopolitical conflict rarely stays confined to physical battlefields. Increasingly, it spills into the digital domain. The latest escalation of tensions in the Middle East has prompted the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to issue a warning to organisations to review their cyber security posture and prepare for possible cyber activity linked to Iran. While…
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NCSC Warns UK Organisations to Prepare for Potential Iran-Linked Cyber Activity
Tags: advisory, attack, awareness, breach, business, china, cyber, cybercrime, data, data-breach, espionage, exploit, finance, government, group, incident response, infrastructure, international, Internet, iran, leak, malware, middle-east, military, monitoring, phishing, resilience, risk, russia, service, supply-chain, tactics, threat, tool, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementGeopolitical conflict rarely stays confined to physical battlefields. Increasingly, it spills into the digital domain. The latest escalation of tensions in the Middle East has prompted the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to issue a warning to organisations to review their cyber security posture and prepare for possible cyber activity linked to Iran. While…
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AI Emerges as the New Insider Threat: Thales Releases the 2026 Data Threat Report
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, business, cloud, compliance, container, control, credentials, cyber, data, deep-fake, encryption, governance, identity, infrastructure, risk, saas, skills, software, strategy, theft, threat, toolAI Emerges as the New Insider Threat: Thales Releases the 2026 Data Threat Report madhav Tue, 03/03/2026 – 15:00 Over the past year, I’ve watched AI move to operational reality across nearly every industry we work with. The conversation is no longer about whether AI will transform business. It already has. Cybersecurity Todd Moore –…
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Oracle EBS 2025 campaign impacts Madison Square Garden, sensitive data leaked
Madison Square Garden confirmed a data breach tied to the 2025 Oracle E-Business Suite hacking campaign. Madison Square Garden (MSG) has confirmed it was affected by a data breach linked to the 2025 cybercrime campaign targeting Oracle’s E-Business Suite (EBS) customers. Madison Square Garden (MSG) is a world-famous multi-purpose indoor arena located in New York…
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Surviving Ransomware: Best practices to safeguard your business
By Robbie Ross, cyber security lead, Converged Communication Solutions It’s not if but when. This is a phrase that has been echoed across the cyber security industry for several years, but when it comes to ransomware the message is still not penetrating widely enough. The 2025 UK Government Cyber Breaches Survey highlighted that just 32%…
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LexisNexis confirms data breach as hackers leak stolen files
American data analytics company LexisNexis Legal & Professional has confirmed to BleepingComputer that hackers breached its servers and accessed some customer and business information. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/lexisnexis-confirms-data-breach-as-hackers-leak-stolen-files/
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On Moltbook
The MIT Technology Review has a good article on Moltbook, the supposed AI-only social network: Many people have pointed out that a lot of the viral comments were in fact posted by people posing as bots. But even the bot-written posts are ultimately the result of people pulling the strings, more puppetry than autonomy. “Despite…
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OAuth phishers make ‘check where the link points’ advice ineffective
Tags: authentication, automation, awareness, business, cloud, control, edr, email, encryption, endpoint, exploit, governance, identity, login, malicious, microsoft, monitoring, phishing, saas, threat, toolContext, not the URL, is the new red flag: Sakshi Grover, Senior Research Manager at IDC Asia/Pacific, said the longstanding advice to hover over a link and verify its domain was built for an era of lookalike domains and that it no longer holds in environments where authentication flows routinely pass through trusted identity providers.”Organizations…
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AI Agents: The Next Wave Identity Dark Matter – Powerful, Invisible, and Unmanaged
The Rise of MCPs in the EnterpriseThe Model Context Protocol (MCP) is quickly becoming a practical way to push LLMs from “chat” into real work. By providing structured access to applications, APIs, and data, MCP enables prompt-driven AI agents that can retrieve information, take action, and automate end-to-end business workflows across the enterprise. This is…
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Epic Fury introduces new layer of enterprise risk
Tags: access, apt, attack, business, cisa, ciso, communications, country, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, data-breach, disinformation, exploit, group, infrastructure, intelligence, international, Internet, iran, malware, middle-east, network, ransomware, resilience, risk, rust, service, software, technology, tool, ukrainePhysical attacks on US-linked locations through direct action or partner groups. We are already seeing Iranian missile launches into a variety of nations in the region.Cyber operations that include disruptive activity, targeted intrusions, credential and access harvesting, destructive malware deployment, and the use of compromised infrastructure to support broader influence or operational objectives.Proxy networks across…
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Why Every Enterprise Needs a Strong API Security Strategy?
Modern enterprises are rapidly shifting toward API-centric architectures, leveraging APIs to connect internal systems, external partners, and digital services. With 74% of organizations adopting API-first development models, APIs now drive critical business logic and data exchanges at scale. However, this API proliferation also dramatically increases the attack surface, exposing sensitive data and business processes to……
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7 factors impacting the cyber skills gap
Tags: ai, attack, automation, breach, business, ciso, control, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, group, incident response, intelligence, jobs, risk, service, skills, strategy, technology, threat, tool, training, vulnerability2. Emerging technologies: New technologies, particularly AI, are contributing to a cyber landscape that’s evolving so quickly it’s hard for even highly skilled cybersecurity professionals to pace, says Dan Lohrmann, CISO at enterprise strategy and consulting firm Presidio.AI-driven threats keep moving the target, allowing cybercriminals to attack with unprecedented levels of speed and agility, Lohrmann…
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AI went from assistant to autonomous actor and security never caught up
Enterprise AI deployments have shifted from pilot programs to production systems handling customer data, executing business transactions, and integrating with core … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/03/03/enterprise-ai-agent-security-2026/
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Vulnerability monitoring service secures public-sector websites faster
Tags: business, ceo, cyber, dns, government, Internet, monitoring, office, resilience, risk, service, skills, technology, threat, tool, update, vulnerabilityTools good, talk better: The UK government’s VMS uses a combination of commercial and proprietary scanning tools to detect vulnerabilities in internet-facing assets.But McKay cautions against drawing the wrong conclusion from the results.”Process, accountability and taking ownership for explaining why this matters to the resilience of the business is far more important than the technical…
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Ignition Technology sets sights on increasing business
Channel player looks to grow revenues through vendor, geographical and services expansion First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/microscope/news/366639470/Ignition-Technology-sets-sights-on-increasing-business
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Scalable Security for Small and Large Enterprises
Building Adaptive Cyber Defense That Grows with Your Business The Scalability Imperative in Modern Cybersecurity Digital transformation has redefined how organizations operate. Cloud adoption, hybrid work models, SaaS platforms, and connected ecosystems have expanded the attack surface across businesses of every size. What differs is not the type of threats faced but the scale First…
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A scorecard for cyber and risk culture
Tags: access, automation, awareness, breach, business, compliance, control, credentials, cyber, finance, governance, identity, jobs, metric, mitigation, phishing, risk, service, strategy, tool, trainingWhen someone asks for an exception.When a change goes in late.When an alert fires at 2 a.m.When a junior analyst spots something odd and wonders if it’s worth escalating.When an executive wants speed, and the team wants safety. Ownership means people act like the risk is partly theirs. They don’t outsource judgment to “security.” They…
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‘Cleaning Superstore’: warning over missed delivery text scam on WhatsApp
The text mimics a common fraud, but differs in that criminals appear to have hacked a genuine business accountJohn the delivery driver has tried to drop off something at your home from a company called Cleaning Superstore but you missed him, according to the message you have received via WhatsApp.Although you cannot remember buying anything…
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Strengthening Identity Security: Real-World Credential Attack Detection with Seceon aiSIEM
Executive Overview Identity has become the primary attack surface in modern enterprise environments. Threat actors increasingly bypass traditional malware-based techniques and instead exploit compromised credentials to access cloud platforms, email systems, and business-critical applications. Credential abuse now drives ransomware campaigns, business email compromise, data exfiltration, and lateral movement within hybrid environments. Organizations must therefore detect…
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Third-Party Patching and the Business Footprint We All Share
Everyday tools like PDF readers, email clients, and archive utilities quietly define the real attack surface. Action1 explains how third-party software drift increases exploit risk and why consistent patching reduces exposure across endpoints. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/third-party-patching-and-the-business-footprint-we-all-share/
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Top 7 Cloud Scanner for Vulnerabilities in 2026
We talk about ‘Vulnerability Management’ collectively as important! But, when security is not confined to only “finding every CVE” and more about shrinking exploitable paths faster than the business ships change, we need to go inclusive and focus on everything. Today, we focus on ‘managing cloud vulnerability’. Security leaders can’t buy their way out of……
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Top 7 Cloud Scanner for Vulnerabilities in 2026
We talk about ‘Vulnerability Management’ collectively as important! But, when security is not confined to only “finding every CVE” and more about shrinking exploitable paths faster than the business ships change, we need to go inclusive and focus on everything. Today, we focus on ‘managing cloud vulnerability’. Security leaders can’t buy their way out of……